LIFE & PATHWAYS

I live and work at the thresholds—between sound and silence, matter and memory, structure and intuition.
What began as formal training in classical music and philosophy has unfolded into a fluid, multidimensional practice across music, visual art, scent, ceramics, and digital media. My hands move between instruments as seamlessly as they hold a brush, shape clay, or capture light through the lens. The ear guides the eye; rhythm emerges in breath, form, and gesture.

I was born into the world of theatre—where voice, space, art and story constantly intertwine. This early immersion awakened a lifelong devotion to crossing boundaries between disciplines, and to attuning to the invisible forces that shape experience. While studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts, I began developing an independent language that merged philosophy with sensory exploration.

Painting and photography have remained steady companions—ways of framing silence, catching shadow, and translating inner states into visual texture. Over time, my practice expanded further: into composition, olfactory installations, ceramics, and audio-reactive visual systems. But at its core, my work remains a search for resonance—for the architectures that move beneath perception.

Each step has brought me closer to the root of my work: aesthetic alchemy. The art of transformation, not just through form, but through perception itself.

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

My work is rooted in Aesthetic Alchemy—the transformation of perception into form.
This is not a metaphor, but a lived process: a way of composing across sound, image, material, and space to make the invisible perceptible. Through this alchemical lens, each work becomes a transmutation—a weaving of sensory impressions into new realities.

The perceptual foundation of this process is synesthesia. I perceive sound as color, scent as moving shape, physical touch as textured fields of color. This cross-sensory way of knowing guides everything I create—whether composing, sculpting, painting, or listening to the silent geometries of a space.

Ceramics, for me, are sculpted rhythm. Scent is ephemeral architecture. Music is structured space-time. Painting becomes a vibration of stillness. Photography, a way of catching breath in light. In each, the boundary between material and immaterial softens, revealing the underlying resonance that connects them.

My practice bridges ancient and contemporary ways of knowing—drawing from Renaissance curiosity, spatial and scientific research, and the deep intelligence of the senses. Each project emerges as a living system, where disciplines dissolve and reassemble, shaped by time, intuition, and the intimacy of attention.

This is not a practice bound by genre, but a field of transmutation—where silence becomes form, and form becomes invitation.

THE FUNCTION BEHIND THE FORM

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Grants

  • 2023: Austrian Culture Ministry State Grant for Composition

  • 2022: Austrian Culture Ministry Work Grant for Composition

  • 2021: Arvo Pärt Centre Residency Scholarship

  • 2020: Carinthian Culture Grant for Composition

  • 2020: City of Vienna Grant for Composition

  • 2019: Austrian Culture Ministry Grant for Music and Performing Arts

Education

2014 - 2018   Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Doctoral Studies in Philosophy

2007 - 2014   University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Instrumental Studies/Viola Performance

Commissions

Vienna State Opera ・Swedish Chamber Orchestra ・ Västerås Sinfonietta ・Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra ・Ensemble Kontrapunkte ・Wien Modern ・feet become ears ・Anne Akiko Meyers ・Elisabeth Plank ・Ingerine Dahl ・Martin Kuuskmann ・Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir・ Cantus Novus Wien

Film Scoring

  • Vienna Game (in production) Disney+

  • Wiener Blut - Berggericht (2025) ORF/ZDF

  • Aufgetischt: Beethoven & Wien (2020) ORF/ZDF

Classical Music Premieres

  • 2025, October 10th, Vienna (Austria): Blind Colours

  • 2025, September 4th, Örebro (Sweden): Violin Concerto No. 1

  • 2025, June, 6th, Vienna (Austria): Autopoiesis (Duo Version)

  • 2024, June 4th, San José (Costa Rica): String Quartet No. 1

  • 2023, July 10th, Tartu (Estonia): a rose-toned fragment 

  • 2023, July 2nd, Risør (Norway): Five Miniatures 

  • 2023, May 10th, Erfurt (Germany): Abstract Dualism 

  • 2023, April 15th, Stavanger (Norway): Sei solo la luce 

  • 2023, February 20th, Munich (Germany): Hall of Mirrors (Duo No. 1) 

  • 2022, September 27th, New York (USA): Heart Meditation 

  • 2022, April 28th, Örebro (Sweden): Xodus Hymn 

  • 2022, April 8th, New York (USA): Perpetuo 

  • 2022, April 8th, New York (USA): Autopoiesis

  • 2022, April 8th, New York (USA): Childhood memories

  • 2021, April 19th, Vienna (Austria): Atmospheres 

  • 2020, December 14th, Vienna (Austria): Olfactospheres 

  • 2020, February 7th, Cluj (Romania): Calamitas 

  • 2019, November 10th, Vienna (Austria)/Wien Modern: Rhizom 

  • 2019, November 9th, Vienna (Austria)/Wien Modern: Reset 

  • 2019, November 8th, Vienna (Austria)/Wien Modern: Static Pointillism 

  • 2019, September 27th, Timisoara (Romania): Archipelago 

  • 2019, Mai 17th, Iasi (Romania): Dreams of Lunacy 

  • 2018, November 24th, London (UK): Rewind 

    ALL PERFORMANCES

Exhibitions

  • 2024, June 28th - September 29th, Vienna (Austria): Künstlerhaus: WUNDERKAMMER

  • 2024, March 6th - April 14th, Millstatt (Austria), FORUM KUNST contemporary: Accrochage

  • 2023, March 5th - May 5th, Millstatt (Austria), FORUM KUNST contemporary: Illusion - Delusion

  • 2022, April 8th, New York (USA), Plaxall Gallery: CreArt Festival

  • 2021, September 10th - November 7th, Vienna, Westlicht: Critical Mail Art & Image Text Collage

  • 2019, August 15th - 19th, Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Art Expo

  • 2019, July 16th - 25th, Rome, Millepiani Exhibition Space: GLITCHES AND DEFECTS

  • 2019, March 21st - April 16th, Vienna, Jan Arnold Gallery/MQ: transformative embodiments

  • 2017, October 1st - November 1st, Bodrum, Turkey: 3rd International Bodrum Biennial

  • 2017, January 31st - April 8th, Vienna, Weisses Haus: STRATIFIED - Fragmentierte Welten

  • 2016, December 15th, Vienna, HERR LEUTNER Westbahnstraße: Group Exhibit

  • 2015, November 12th - 2016 January 10th, Vienna, Lukas Feichtner Gallery: In the Basement

  • 2015, November 12th - 22nd, Lukas Feichtner Gallery: Vienna Art Week